Needed no editing... How is this a blessing?

[Hot Lips]

She's gone

Three months ago I sat across the table from my friend ***** at a 4th of July BBQ. She was 6 months pregnant at the time and we were laughing and talking about pregnancy and motherhood, etc. She and her husband ***** were expecting their first baby, a boy.

They are one of those magical couples that you see in the movies...met when they were young and have loved each other ever since. I am not talking just about the comfortable love of companionship after many years together...no, they were still head-over-heels, butterflies-in-the-stomach in love even after 15 years together.

She was one of the kindest souls I have ever met. And she died yesterday.

You see, about 2 weeks after that 4th of July BBQ, **** found a lump in her armpit. It was melanoma in her lymph nodes and it was on her lungs as well. She was pregnant and could not get chemo. They started her on steroids to develop the baby faster and he was born on August 28th, 7 weeks early.

It seems that as soon as the baby was born the cancer began to spread rapidly...like it was waiting at the starting gate for the gun to go off. It spread like wildfire quickly engulfing her organs, filling her lungs with fluid until she couldn't breath.

Too late for chemo. Too late for anything.

Except for a miracle.

I would love to tell you that God miraculously healed her and that she and her baby and her loving husband lived happily ever after. But I am even happier to tell you what really happened. In the final weeks of her life God worked a miracle...he called ******'s soul to Him and she accepted the gift of salvation.

She died peacefully, quietly, in her sleep. She was 29 years old and she leaves behind a beautiful 5 week old baby boy who is her mirror image...a little piece of her for those of us who will miss her.

The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

Thank you so much to all of you who prayed with me for a miracle. Our prayers were answered and she's with our saviour now.
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[Phred]

It's not a blessing... it's life. Sometimes life is short and it just ends. There's no freakin' god up there deciding these things and the people that can mangle this into a blessing are twits... truly twits. The child being born before she died is a blessing for the child and a horrible ripoff at the same time. With any luck daddy will get married again and the kid will hardly know that mommy isn't the lady that daddy married after real mommy got the cancer. But most likely they'll raise the poor kid to believe all this god crap and what good will that do?

I weep for our civilization...